This is an analysis of We Are Children by William Cosmo Monkhouse.
CHILDREN indeed are we—children that wait
Within a wondrous dwelling, while on high…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXabcXcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001111011 0101010111 1011010101 0101110100 0111011101 10011100110 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111001101 1101110101 1111011101 10111110111 1101100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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